Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Ramdass v. Angelone Director Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), 71 Cal. App. 3d 406 - Helena Rubenstein Internat. v. Younger (1977)
21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People v. . Fabian · Commonwealth v. Lockwood · Commonwealth v. Gorham · Snodgrass v. State · Marion v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the context of the statute refers to the successive steps in a criminal case, or any particular stage of such a prosecution, as distinguished from others, th[e] words[, conviction or convicted,] apply simply and solely to the verdict of guilty; but where the reference is to the ascertainment of guilt in another proceeding, in its bearings upon the status or rights of the individual in a subsequent case, there a broader meaning attaches to the expressions, and a `conviction' is not established, or a person deemed to have been `convicted' unless it is shown that a judgment has been pronounced upon the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The circuit courts of counties . . . shall have power to remove from office all state, county .. . officers elected or appointed . . . who shall have been convicted .. . of any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the word 'convicted' ... means convicted by judgment, and requires a judgment of conviction, in addition to the verdict of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.